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Here you can listen to excerpts from Alice's scores for BBC Radio dramas broadcast on Radio 4 and Radio 3. You can also view her score for Galapagos, her entry to the BBC New Talent competition to find new TV composers, which was picked from over 1500 entries for a place in the finals.
These soundtrack excerpts are © Alice Trueman 2004-2020, and may not be reproduced or distributed without written permission. All rights reserved.
BBC Radio 4: Solaris (Remixed for the Web)
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Original music for BBC radio drama produced by Polly Thomas, an adaptation of the philosophical sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem. It was broadcast as two hour-long episodes on Radio 4 in July and August 2007, and also broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Opening Credits
The Angry Sea
The Beautiful Sea
Horror underscore
Love underscore - for central tragic love story
Spooky underscore
The Unconscious Mind
BBC Radio 4 - Art of Now: Migraine
An exploration of migraine and creativity through a specially commissioned musical score, and the stories of artists and writers who experience the condition.
Attempts to describe migraine have been made in visual arts and literature, but here - for the first time - Alice creates a piece of sonic art that seeks to unlock the nature of a migraine attack
Listen to a clip of Aura section
Alice evokes the experience of a migraine aura, combining disorientating music and sound design with distorted speech of migraine sufferers.
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You can listen to and buy all the music from Migraine below:
https://alicetrueman.bandcamp.com/album/migraine
For further details and to listen to the programme in full click here
BBC Radio 4 - Three Sisters Rewired
Melancholy original music for the BBC Radio 4 drama 'Three Sisters Rewired', a play inspired by Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'. Produced by Graeae Theatre and Naked Productions, adapted and directed by Polly Thomas and Jenny Sealey. Alice's evocative score also features Deaf flautist Ruth Montgomery.
Melancholy Opening Credits
Transition from May to Christmas
Iris' Theme - Lively upbeat Solo Flute
Opening Credits Episode 2 - Winter and the Flood
Olivia's melancholy theme
Transition from Winter back to Spring
Goodbye letter
BBC Radio 3: Girlfriend In A Coma (Remixed for the Web)
Original music for adaptation of post-apocalyptic novel by Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs. BBC drama produced by Polly Thomas, broadcast on Radio 3 on February 24th 2008.
Turbulent music - awakening from the coma
Ominous underscore
Slipping back into the coma
Jared's Music - uplifting piano piece, hopeful yet poignant
Credits music
BBC Radio 4: Noise
A sound-driven mystery about memory loss and trust. Kit knows something isn't quite right, as she struggles to regain her identity after she almost dies from hypothermia. A new play by Alex Bulmer and produced by Polly Thomas.
For more information about 'Noise', visit the BBC website here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dhrmv
Freezing Underscore
Includes arrangements of music inspired by Chopin's Prelude in E Minor Opus 28 # 4. Piano music in which the melodies become frozen.
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Other underscore and diegetic music
Music underscoring Kit's state of mind and music she hears on the radio.
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End Credits
After Kit escapes her dark past the end music looks to a happier future, while still including traces of the Chopin Prelude.
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BBC Radio 3: And So Say All of Us
Music for a dark comedy radio drama broadcast on Radio 3.
The play was written by a team of award-winning writers headed by Dan Rebellato and directed by Polly Thomas. Alice's unhinged electronic music underscores unsettling domestic scenes as the characters dismantle their homes in the lead up to what seems to be the end of the world.
Armageddon
Deranged Minimalist Music
In the womb
Wonky Dubstep
Stretched Dance Music
Sinister and Pacey
BBC New Talent: Galapagos
Entry for BBC New Talent competition illustrating the wonders of these strange islands. Achieved a place in the final 12.